5/26/2023 0 Comments Itunes larger album art view![]() ![]() The cover caused such controversy, along with its spontaneous release without their label's permission, that the band were forced to put a disclaimer on their website. The cover shows the erect penis of drummer Zach Hill with the album's title written in black marker.Additionally, the album's actual cover – a 1970s Newsweek photograph of Shriners in a parade – prompted a 1986 lawsuit from the four elderly Shriners included in the photograph. Although the trial and two years of subsequent litigation in the case did not result in any convictions, Alternative Tentacles and the band's frontman Jello Biafra were nearly driven into bankruptcy as a result of costs related to the trial and litigation. The band and its record label Alternative Tentacles were brought to criminal trial for distributing harmful matter to minors. Giger's Landscape #XX, or Penis Landscape, was a painting depicting rows of penises in sexual intercourse. A poster inserted in the original record sleeve, H.Following controversy, later copies of the album have the genitals airbrushed out of the painting. ![]()
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